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Today I\u2019m so honored to guest post for Alyssa Bacon-Liu, the beauty behind, \u201cAll Things Beautiful\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 She is smart, funny, genuine, and incredibly talented.\u00a0 I\u2019m so excited to share a post on grace called, \u201cGracious Expectations\u201d with you my lovely readers.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my God!\u00a0 You have SO lost your mind!\u201d I yelled at the driver who nearly cut us off on Storrow Drive, the uncomfortably narrow, often confusing, major parkway into Boston our family takes every Friday\u00a0night.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

So that my husband and I can get in a regular date night during the school year, we drop our kids off at the historic Park Street church for Fun Night.\u00a0 Between three kids, one church plant, and the high cost of living in Boston, we shamelessly take a more \u201cecumenical\u201d approach when planning church activities for our children.\u00a0 If from the website we can tell that the leaders loves Jesus and they won\u2019t be handing out snakes or Kool-aid at the end of the event\u2014we\u2019ll enroll the kiddos. We like to think of it as broadening their Kingdom pallet instead of ministry mooching.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Then I encourage you to stick around.\u00a0 Alyssa\u2019s \u201cObsessions\u201d posts are always so much fun!<\/p>\n

See you tomorrow where I\u2019ll hopefully rebuff the myth of \u201cThe One\u201d when I start our Campfire Conversation on God\u2019s Will.<\/p>\n

With Grace, grace, and more grace,<\/p>\n

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